Fruit-press.



C. DDMA.

FRUIT PRESS. 14j-47,2229 APPLICATION FILED IAN. 23, I9I5. .Patented July 20 1915' 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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Speccation of Letters Patent.

Application led January 23, 1915. SeralNo. 3,970.

T0 all lwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES DoMA, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Newark, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Presses, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to a fruit press and has as its principal object to provide ay household article by means of which any housewife may easily and effectively press out the juice of grapes, berries, olives, tomatoes and the like, separating therefrom the residue or solid substance.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described which is simple in construction, easy to handle, inexpensive to manufacture and thus within the reach of every housewife.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in the particular construction, arrangement and combination of parts, hereinafter more specifically set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an end view, Fig..2 a vertical cross-section, Fig. 3 a plan view and Fig. 4 a front elevational view of my device.

Throughout the several views the samepart is designated by the same reference character.

Referring more particularly tothe drawings, 5 is a casing made of wood, metal or any other suitable material, removably supported on a vat 6 and provided, at its top, with a hopper 7 through which the fruit is fed into the apparatus.

v From the hopper 7 the fruit gets over cylindrical squeezers 8 and 9, rotating in inverse directions as indicated bythe arrows and is thus drawn in between same, being squeezed thereby. The juice squeezed out and the solid residues then drop on a cylindrical transporter 10 turning in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2.

The squeezers 8 and 9 and the transporter 10 are mounted on shafts 11, 12 and 13, respectively, journaledinthe end walls of the casing 5 with one end extending through said end wall and carrying thereon gears in engagement with each other, as shown in Fig. 1. The end of the shaft 13 is. still further extended and a crank handle 14 attached to it. When actuating this crank handle, the pinion 15 mounted on the shaft 13 engages a spurgear 16 mounted on the shaft 11, integral with another spur gear 17 which in its turn engages the spur gear 18 mounted on the shaft 12 and thereby all the shafts'are forcibly rotated. The respective diameters of the gearing are so calculated that the two squeezers Sand 9rotate at the same speed, whereas the transporter 10 rotates at a higher speed.

The squeezers 8 and 9 are provided with helical grooves 19 all around their surface, so as to grip the fruit securely, whereas the transporter 10 has a smoothv surface.

The front wall` of the casing 5 is provided with an opening 20 at itsbottomthrough. which the solid substances leave the casing 5 viesentrm Julyao, 1915. f

over ascreen 2l provided with perforations such as 22 all along its ,length through which the liquid juice enters the vat'6. The screen 2l has its inner edge close to the transporter 10, so that no juice or residue may get past the screen 21. A trough 23 may be hungunder the opening 20 for taking up the residue leaving the casing 5.

A scraper 24 is attached to the inside of the front wall of the casing 5 so as to scrape off the squeezerS any liquid or solid substance that may adhere thereto. j

An outlet 25 is provided in the vatfor anV obvious purpose and may bev replaced by a cock.

I claim:

A fruit press, comprising, in combination,

a pair of cylindrical squeezers provided with adapted to actuate all of said shafts by y soL means of said gears, a screen mounted in of said squeezers, substantially as and for said casing close to said transporter, prothe purpose set forth. vided With perforations andprojecting into an opening made in said casing, a container f CHARLES DOMA" for liquids supporting said easing, and a Witnesses:

scraper attached to the inside of the front JOHN MUNKESG,

Wall of said casing in engagement With one JOHN TERVEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latente, Washington, D. C. 

